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The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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2,256 books — 2,435 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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